History of the Internet

BBN: In the Beginning

Bolt Beranek and Newman, a company who played a major role
in creating the Internet, which was founded in 1948 as consulting company. Richard Bolt
and Leo Beranek were acousticians from MIT who did private consulting on buildings around
the country. In the Mid 1940s Bolt was asked by the United Nations to design the
acoustics for a new building. Because of all the work that was ahead, he could not handle
it all himself so he asked Leo Beranek to join him. At that time they hired another man
whos name was Robert Newman to help with the work, which together formed BBN.